Climate Change

Barbecue summer? Cyclists wearing rain coats at St James' Park in London, England

For barbecue summer, read wellies washout new

The Met Office is today telling us what every Briton knows: it was wrong to raise summertime hopes.

Inside Climate Change

Grace Boyle: 'My neighbour killed himself by swallowing his own pesticides... the land can no longer support us'

Monday, 27 July 2009

Mutai came to Kerala, to this farm, on January 21st, 1951. He was eleven years old then, and has lived here ever since.

Brown condemned by his green guru

Saturday, 25 July 2009

Gordon Brown does not see the environment as important and spent years as Chancellor preventing British domestic action on climate change, the Government's chief environmental adviser says today.

Grace Boyle: Climate change in Kerala

Wednesday, 22 July 2009

Now, some members of the Rainspotting team have been curving an arc over the Northern Indian states and viewing some pretty harrowing sights: victims of Cyclone Alia crowded into refugee camps swarming with malarious mosquitoes in the east; lake beds so dry the earth has cracked open in the drought-hit west.

Miliband's manifesto to make Britain a low-carbon economy

Thursday, 16 July 2009

Michael McCarthy: The national strategy to cut emissions comes at a price. But are we willing to pay it?

Oil giant Exxon sees the future – and it is green algae

Wednesday, 15 July 2009

The oil giant that environmentalists love to hate, ExxonMobil, which for years denied the existence of man-made climate change, is sensationally "going green" in a very literal sense – investing $600m (£369m) in algae.

Grace Boyle: 'It will take much more than threats of climate change to spur this mighty elephant into action'

Tuesday, 14 July 2009

The following is by Akhila Vijayaraghavan, a friend of mine who works as a campaigner on sustainable agriculture at Greenpeace. She returned to India in March of this year having spent six years studying in Glasgow, and still retains much of the excellent accent. With this perspective, I asked her to write something on her impressions of the Indian attitude to environmentalism.